Caustic Burno wrote:Again nothing new we have done this to ourselves. We imported the Chestnut blight and fired the starter pistol.Out forestry management or lack of it destroyed 4 million acres of subtropical rain forest here.

Yeah, but I hear it looks so good when the city people drive by on the highway and them red cocked woodpeckers gotta have somewhere to nest...........

"For evil to flourish, all that is required is for good men to do nothing" Burke

Lucky_P wrote:Cows are notoriously poor forest managers.Hoof compaction, browsing/rubbing seedlings. etc., causes more damage and economic loss than the forage provided by running cows 'in the woods'; stats I've seen put forward say it takes about 40 acres of typical Southeastern forest to support 1 cow-calf pair. Our cattle are fenced off from the 85 acres of hardwood forest, except for a 40-ft shade strip we allowed them when we fenced this place. Oaks, hickories are fine. too many maples to suit me. EAB not here yet, but its just a matter of time, and the ash will be gone

depending on the time of the year and conditions.. cattle can really benefit a woods.

Explain this statement please because I have never seen that in Appalachian hardwoods.

Probably because all it ever does in ky is rain for the last 5 years anyway. I delt with the most awful fungus on tobacco for years. Became some what crazy over as it has cost me many thousands of dollars. So i do a lot of looking in the summers. Tree leaves are covered in fungus every summer. The plant pathologist and agronomist from uk are here every summer working with tobacco test plots. They sent several tree leaves in 50-11 different fungus on them weeds everything. Fact is the climate is changing all this rain is one big pima.

littletom wrote:Probably because all it ever does in ky is rain for the last 5 years anyway. I delt with the most awful fungus on tobacco for years. Became some what crazy over as it has cost me many thousands of dollars. So i do a lot of looking in the summers. Tree leaves are covered in fungus every summer. The plant pathologist and agronomist from uk are here every summer working with tobacco test plots. They sent several tree leaves in 50-11 different fungus on them weeds everything. Fact is the climate is changing all this rain is one big pima.

The rain we got today puts us within one inch of being the wettest year on record for Kentucky.

The pastures of today were hardwoods of yesterday. Funny that environmentalists never worry about what their house displaced, what their resort disrupted, what their trail bothers. The problem is always others.

littletom wrote:Probably because all it ever does in ky is rain for the last 5 years anyway. I delt with the most awful fungus on tobacco for years. Became some what crazy over as it has cost me many thousands of dollars. So i do a lot of looking in the summers. Tree leaves are covered in fungus every summer. The plant pathologist and agronomist from uk are here every summer working with tobacco test plots. They sent several tree leaves in 50-11 different fungus on them weeds everything. Fact is the climate is changing all this rain is one big pima.

The rain we got today puts us within one inch of being the wettest year on record for Kentucky.

I think we're pretty close to it too.. never seen a fall so wet.. hardly a week without rain since mid august.. I'm going to guess we got about 10 inches since then? On a dry year we get under 10 total, I think 17 is average?

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Ebenezer wrote:The pastures of today were hardwoods of yesterday. Funny that environmentalists never worry about what their house displaced, what their resort disrupted, what their trail bothers. The problem is always others.

Talk about hardwood changes in the east- talk about chestnuts.

Sounds like the environmentalists in Florida. The lack of water quality is all the farmers and cattlemens fault, no one worries about all the golf courses and swimming pools....or just all the people in general.

Ebenezer wrote:The pastures of today were hardwoods of yesterday. Funny that environmentalists never worry about what their house displaced, what their resort disrupted, what their trail bothers. The problem is always others.

Talk about hardwood changes in the east- talk about chestnuts.

In VA there are more acres of timberland now than in 1940. Many of the steep mountain farms are now in trees. Yes the biggest impact on the eastern forest was the chestnut blight. Its a different forest but it's still forest land.